Maci Bookout has been on Teen Mom for nearly 15 years, but she says she has no plans to leave the world of reality television anytime soon, and for a very good reason.

And, no, surprisingly, that reason is not her big fat MTV paycheck.

In a new interview with In Touch Weekly, Maci and her husband Taylor McKinney admitted that they do consider it “all the time.”

“We’ve talk about, and sometimes, with filming the days get long and it can get overwhelming at times….we try to make the best of it but there’s been times where we’ve had those conversations,” Taylor said.

Maci said that dealing with the lack of privacy is the main reason she’d consider retiring from reality TV.

“For me, it’s not just what you see on the show. Like, every move that we make is just so public,” Maci said.  And everything with our kids is just so public. And you can’t really go out in public and be left alone…”

Maci said that, even if she and her family stop appearing on the ‘Teen Mom’ shows now, the damage to their privacy has already been done and will continue to be done.

“But at this point, even if we left reality TV, everything would still be so public,” she said. “…The tabloids or magazines or blogs– they’re not just going to forget that we exist and not care. So if we expect to leave [TV] and then be left alone, that’s never going to happen.”

Taylor said he has a more-altruistic reason for staying on reality TV.

“But I think, too,— and you kind of lose sight of this—when someone comes up in public and says ‘Your guys’ story helps me a lot. I appreciate what you’re doing’ and I forget that sometimes,” he said. “Because we’re just going through our everyday life, and you forget that people watch and relate to it. You know, it’s helps them.”

“So, it’s like, we might as well keep trying to help people, you know?” Maci agreed. “We keep trying to put real life stuff out there, for people to see, to laugh at, or to judge, whatever. But hopefully it can help one person or one family, then that sounds good to me.”